Cyclists and cafe owner raise £3,500 in memory of former Axminster resident Adam Bounds

Five cyclists who rode 131 miles from Lyme Regis to Newquay lifeboat stations raised £3, 061 for the RNLI in memory of a friend.

Matthew Payne organised the sponsored ride in memory of his best friend and former Axminster resident Adam Bounds, who died suddenly last year, aged 41, following a brain haemorrhage.

Matthew, Rob Gage, Andrew 'Edder' Gage, Alan Cockram and Dan Galloway set out on their sponsored ride from Lyme Regis at 5am on May 26 and arrived in Newquay 10hours and 34 minutes later.

They had hoped to raise £1,000 but reached the grand total of more than £3,000 and presented the donation to the volunteers of Lyme Regis lifeboat crew on Sunday.

Matthew said "Adam loved life and Lyme Regis and particularly Lifeboat Week. Another favourite place for us to visit was Newquay which is why we chose these locations which we enjoyed so much with Adam."

A further donation of £473 was raised by another of Adam's friends, Jack Price, owner of the Railway Kitchen cafe at Axminster train station.

Adam was known as a huge Michael Jackson fan so Jack organised a disco featuring his favourite music at Axminster Football Club to raise the donation.

Jack said: "Adam was the life and soul of the party and a very big Michael Jackson fan. But he also loved Lifeboat Week and the RNLI. He would camp in Uplyme and walk into Lyme Regis every day of Lifeboat Week."

Axminster cafe owner Jack Price makes a donation in memory of Adam Bounds to Brian Curlsey of Lyme Regis lifeboat crew